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Editorial
July 14, 1925
The Dawson News
Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia
What is this article about?
Editorial critiques the need for a college course in home-making funded by a $500,000 donation from a Michigan woman to Vassar College, lamenting changes in the American home and hoping it revives traditional family values.
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Has It Come to This?
A Michigan woman has given half a million dollars to Vassar college to establish a course in home-making. Half a million is a large sum of money. It would build 10,000 homes in each of which in time there could be conducted a school of home-making. The home used to be the very best school of domestic art. From it our mothers and grandmothers were graduated. But it is not the best school now, especially in the cities. In the last generation the American home has been radically changed.
Yet, however great the change, it is surprising to know that it is necessary to send girls to college to learn domestic art. Neither did we suspect colleges must present a course in home-making. We are curious to know whether there will be instruction that will result in the establishment of the old-fashioned typical American home, or in the development of the present un-American so-called home. There's a vast difference between the two, especially since mothers have come to devote so much time to matters outside the home—and their daughters, too.
Possibly this Michigan woman foresees the present trend and designs to provide a way whereby some girls may again obtain the correct perspective. Let us hope that this is the case, and that eventually there will be created a pride in home that will make it the one place of all to all members of the family.
A Michigan woman has given half a million dollars to Vassar college to establish a course in home-making. Half a million is a large sum of money. It would build 10,000 homes in each of which in time there could be conducted a school of home-making. The home used to be the very best school of domestic art. From it our mothers and grandmothers were graduated. But it is not the best school now, especially in the cities. In the last generation the American home has been radically changed.
Yet, however great the change, it is surprising to know that it is necessary to send girls to college to learn domestic art. Neither did we suspect colleges must present a course in home-making. We are curious to know whether there will be instruction that will result in the establishment of the old-fashioned typical American home, or in the development of the present un-American so-called home. There's a vast difference between the two, especially since mothers have come to devote so much time to matters outside the home—and their daughters, too.
Possibly this Michigan woman foresees the present trend and designs to provide a way whereby some girls may again obtain the correct perspective. Let us hope that this is the case, and that eventually there will be created a pride in home that will make it the one place of all to all members of the family.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Reform
Education
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Home Making
Domestic Art
American Home
Vassar College
Social Change
Family Values
What entities or persons were involved?
Michigan Woman
Vassar College
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Donation For Home Making Course At Vassar College
Stance / Tone
Concerned About Decline Of Traditional Home, Hopeful For Revival
Key Figures
Michigan Woman
Vassar College
Key Arguments
Home Was Traditionally The Best School For Domestic Art But Has Changed Radically
Surprising Necessity Of College Courses For Home Making
Questions If Course Will Promote Old Fashioned American Home Or Modern Un American Version
Hopes Donation Fosters Pride In Traditional Home